Invoking Saxon from Java

What is first

• Rubber, meet road
• Recovering Data from View

What we will cover

This page describes how to apply grddl.xsl to an arbitrary (XML) file (e.g.) within a Java application.

Let's get to it

Saxon 9.5 HE (2013)

• Download
• Using s9api for Transformations outlines the steps:
  • create new net.sf.saxon.s9api.Processor(false) (not licensed)
  • XsltCompiler compiler = processor.newXsltCompiler() to create a XsltCompiler
  • XsltCompiler.compile(Source)

Circa 2006

• http://p2p.wrox.com/xslt/45913-calling-saxon-java-program.html

What is next

• Invoking Java from XSLT using saxonb9 1 0 8j